Expedition Diaries - Karakoram Diaries

At that time, no human had ever stood on top of a mountain above 8,000 meters. Everest had resisted attempts. K2 remained unclimbed. High altitude mountaineering was still experimental and poorly understood.

In 1914, at a time when large parts of Antarctica were still unmapped and barely understood, Ernest Shackleton set out with a bold objective: to complete the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.